Xyela

Xyela
Xyela julii, from British Entomology
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Xyelidae
Subfamily: Xyelinae
Genus: Xyela
Dalman, 1819
Type species
Xyela pusilla
Dalman, 1819
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 (preoccupied)
  • Mastigocerus Latreille, 1818 (unavailable name)
  • Tritokreion Schilling, 1826
  • Mastigocera Berthold, 1827
  • Neoxyela Curran, 1923
  • Xyelatana Benson, 1938
  • Magnixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971 (unavailable name)
  • Alpigenixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971 (unavailable name)
  • Desertixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971
  • Concavixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971
  • Linsleyixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971 (unavailable name)
  • Minorixyela Rasnitsyn, 1971 (unavailable name)

Xyela is a genus of sawflies, belonging to the family Xyelidae.

The genus was described in 1819 by Dalman.

Ecology

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Larvae of most species of Xyela live and feed in the developing staminate cones of Pinus (Pine) species. One species, gallicaulis, forms shoot galls. Adults fly early in the spring and are commonly found in large numbers on the catkins of Salix (Willow) or Alnus (Alder) trees near their host plants.

List of species

Subgenus Xyela

Subgenus Mesoxyela

Subgenus Pinicolites

References

  1. 1 2 Taeger, A.; Blank, S.M.; Liston, A.D. (2010). "World catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera)". Zootaxa. 2580: 1–1064. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2580.1.1.
  2. 1 2 "IRMNG - Xyela Dalman, 1819". www.irmng.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Xyela Dalman, 1819". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D., eds. (1979). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico - Vol. 1 - Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 7.
  5. ↑ Blank, S.M.; Shinohara, A.; Altenhofer, E. (2013). "The Eurasian species of Xyela (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae): taxonomy, host plants and distribution". Zootaxa. 3629 (1): 1–106. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3629.1.1. PMID 25325088.
  6. ↑ Blank, S.M.; Kramp, K.; Shinohara, A. (2017). "Xyela fusca spec. nov. from Japan elucidates East Asian–North American relationships of Xyela (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae)". Zootaxa. 4303 (1): 103–121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4303.1.6.